Ship Canada Post Lettermail & Parcel together on WooCommerce

WooCommerce store owners can come up with very interesting shipping scenarios. One of the WooCommerce store owners had a unique shipping scenario where he wanted to combine the shipping of two different types of products. According to Jason, “…I have gift certificates for sale, and I have glass objects for sale. The glass objects are configured properly to ship in a box by either expedited, regular or priority. The gift certificates should be shipped by letter mail. When configuring the gift certificates, the Lettermail option does come up as a shipping option, along with the regular other shipping methods (Expedited, regular, priority, etc) which are fine. Buyers can choose the letter mail option from the list.
The problem is when someone wants to buy a glass object AND a gift certificate together. What I want is the cost of shipping to add together the glass object ($11.94) and the gift certificate ($1.80). Then the shipping would be $11.94 + $1.80 = $13.74“

In this article, we will be configuring the WooCommerce Canada Post Shipping plugin to pack Jason’s products in such a way that their shipping cost would be added together without doubling the overall shipping rates.

Packing Both Together

Since Jason is having a hard time with his shipping rates getting doubled in the case of the customers buying both his products. One of the best ways to decrease the shipping cost drastically is to pack all the products together, in one package. Using the WooCommerce Canada Post Shipping plugin, Jason can easily select the Pack into Boxes with Weight and Dimensions parcel packing method from the plugin settings. The image below shows the

This will allow him to pack all the items together up to the weight and the dimensional limits of the box. Also, for individual products, Jason needs to enable the Lettermail Rates so that if there are no other products with the gift certificate, they will be shipped using Lettermail.

Price Adjustment

Now there is one more thing Jason can do. Since the shipping rates may not be the exact addition of the individual shipping cost in case of letter mail shipping and parcel shipping, WooCommerce Canada Post shipping plugin also allows store owners to adjust the shipping rates. This way if the resulted in shipping rates are not as desired by Jason, he can easily add or deduct any amount to the shipping rates.

So this way Jason can pack both the LetterMail-eligible products and a regular parcel product together and get a shipping quote for the same shipment.